[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Request for testing (Win32 users)

[Camm Maguire]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> Earlier Gregory Vanuxem wrote:
> 
> > I have uploaded a version of Axiom built on top of SBCL for
> > Windows (32 bits).
> >
> > It can be downloaded from:
> > http://perso.orange.fr/parabola/axiom-sbcl-win.tar.bz2
> > ...
> 
> On February 12, 2007 11:25 AM Gregory Vanuxem wrote:
> > ...
> > Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 19:31 -0500, Bill Page a écrit :
> > > 
> > > It works. Great job. I think this is a great step forward
> > > for a fully ANSI-compliant common lisp implementation of Axiom.
> > > I can't resist to ask: Have you tried building this version of
> > > Axiom with GCL in ANSI mode?
> > 
> > No, I dropped support of GCL because of spurious bugs: (cond ...)
> > handled strangely (a runtime problem apparently). But I added
> > some modifications to allow it to run on the "ANSI" version of 
> > GCL. They are not tested of course.
> > 
> 
> Thanks. I think the GCL main developer Camm Maquire would be
> strongly motivated to help with ensuring that an ANSI version
> of Axiom works with GCL, especially as a means to test and
> improve GCL's support for ANSI. As I recall he is away for a
> few more weeks but we should expect some comment from him on
> this when he returns.

Greetings!  Yes indeed -- we'll make sure any axiom ansi improvements
work.  Please feel free to forward specific issues to me or to one of
the lists. (Still am not receiving either reliably, alas.)

Take care,

> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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